20th Century

The Cretan Resistance caused significant damage to German morale and is likely the reason why Hitler failed to invade the Soviet Union.<p>Our car pulled up a dusty track next to a grove of olive trees. My guide, Stelios Tripalitakis, got out and started briskly walking in between their gnarled trunks, …

President Donald Trump on Monday signed into law a $717 billion defense spending bill that puts China in the crosshairs of a host of new US Navy missiles and tactics.<p>Beijing heavily protested it and may have scored some small concessions, but the bill puts nearly $1 trillion behind the idea that …

One of the most iconic artists of the 20th century, Frida Kahlo has a life story that has become almost as popular as her art. Kahlo's biography has sparked innumerable books and an Oscar-winning film. Her distinct fashion, unibrow, and marriage to Diego Rivera, a man 21 years her senior, have …

Also to blame: Democrats and liberals.<p>It might be hard to imagine, but there was a time not that long ago when capitalism looked really, really good<b>,</b> at least in America. Not just in the sense that rich people had fancy things they might have liked to show off on Instagram if it existed, but also …

Just a few months after activating its elite Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade for the first time since World War II, Japan plans to send the crisis-response force modeled off the US Marine Corps on its first naval exercise before the end of the year.<p>Japan disbanded its military after World War …

Oops?<p>In June, a group of people out for a walk in Berlin came upon something that would change their afternoon—and one of the world's most famous historical structures as we know it. Behind the bushes on the edge of the Südpanke-Park, near the modern-day headquarters of Germany's Federal …

I will never forget when I first saw the movie <i>Schindler’s List</i>. For the next few days after viewing it, the movie — and its horrific contents — were all I could think about. So it was profoundly interesting to be in Krakow, and visit the actual enamel factory where Oskar Schindler established a …

Parts of Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret read like an aspirational life manual.<p>Princess Margaret, the younger sister Queen Elizabeth II, is in certain ways the ideal British royal to be be the subject of a biography. If you watch <i>The Crown</i>, where Margaret’s wild-child persona makes her the …

The whole world knows that Donald Trump is on a mission to “make America great again.” But it’s unclear exactly when Trump thinks America <i>was</i> great. What era in this country’s history does he feel nostalgic about? To whence does he wish to return?<p>In the campaign video below, Trump claims that US …

It’s been a decade, since the original economic turmoil that was said to be worse than the Great Depression that occurred in 2008. There were pervasive flaws within the economy that centered around the United States’ real estate market fueled by poor financing. In 2018, ten years after our original …